How industrial companies in Germany's critically important investment goods sector are deploying new technological and organizational production concepts to adapt to competitiveness challenges, new market requirements, environment¤al demands, and policy pressures is examined in this book. It...

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Globalization -- Case synopses and assignment questions -- Singapore's "mid-life crisis" -- China "unbalanced" -- Malaysia, people first? -- Malaysia (B), the economic transformation program -- Central Europe after the crash : between Europe and the euro --...